My life is a hackathon

Last Friday at Appirio we held our 1st Annual Future of the Cloud Day where we pull all 200+ employees out of the field for the day to give back to our communities across the country and globe. If you are interested in some of the projects and charities we…

My buddies over at Twilio released a new service yesterday called Twilio Client. I got the scoop about this a number of weeks ago and couldn't wait to talk about it. Twilio Client is a super slick service that allows you to: Make Outbound Phone Calls From the Browser Receive…

I just saw this 5 minute video and thought that people might find it interesting in the context of the learning Ruby series. It's pretty slick demo of using Twilio’s HTTP based call-handling model, and Heroku’s provisionless hosting platform, to build and deploy an app in minutes. Get…

With salesforce.com's recent purchase of Heroku, Ruby just got more interesting. I've never dabbled in Ruby (although I've wanted to!) so this is an excellent reason to dig into the language and see what it's all about. Since I'm learning Ruby I thought some people might also benefit from…